Toolkmaker

Grade 12
- Trade Test (Toolmaker or Tool Jig & Die Maker)
- 5 years working experience in an Automotive Manufacturing environment

**Maintenance Process (Scheduled)**:

- Receive Maintenance Schedules, interpret instructions and plan maintenance and repair work
- Inspect the tooling and determine spares and consumables requirements
- Generate Job Requisitions for scheduled maintenance work (type of repair or maintenance, spares, quantities, time, etc.)
- Transport tools, equipment and spares to the work site
- Isolate equipment, perform lockouts and make the work area safe
- Conduct Preventive Maintenance activities
- Perform change overs in the production environment
- Count stock for a Stock Take integrity check (check spares condition during the count)

**Maintenance Process (Breakdown)**:

- Attend to machine breakdowns of a mechanical/electrical nature for all equipment under engineering functional control
- Update the responsible person on progress of repairs
- Escalate the problem to the next level if it cannot be resolved successfully
- Capture all information related to the breakdown to aid in determining the root cause
- File job requisition upon completion of repair

**Mechanical Maintenance**:

- Perform routine maintenance
- Align machines and equipment
- Diagnose and repair faults on equipment and machinery during production/operation
- Commission and refurbish machines / equipment
- Operate and monitor a drilling machine to produce simple components
- Operate and monitor a lathe to produce simple components
- Operate and monitor a milling machine to produce simple components
- Operate and monitor a surface grinding machine to produce simple components
- Operate the Electrical Discharge Machine (EDM) to seal moulds
- Perform basic welding/joining of metals
- Perform MIG/TIG welding of metals Grind tools and drill bits

**Tooling Maintenance**:

- Maintain and repair production tooling
- Develop new tooling or modify existing tooling when required
- Change and set tooling
- Diagnose and repair faults on tooling during the production run
- Manufacture basic tooling and production tooling to drawing or sample part
- Move, lift, lower and look after tooling

**Fabrication**:

- Develop and fabricate from complex drawings
- Mechanically cut, drill and punch fabrication materials
- Join metals using the resistance welding process
- Weld work piece (oxy-acetylene welding, shielded metal arc welding, gas metal arc welding, gas tungsten arc welding)
- Remove metals using oxy-fuel and air-carbon arc gouging processes

**Maintenance Process (Post Maintenance)**:

- Test and commission machinery or equipment prior to handover
- Complete the Planned Maintenance Schedule (Work completed, work not completed, spares used, spares not available, time taken, observations, problems, etc.)
- Identify any other work required (including additional spares)
- Clean up after completion of job and inform the responsible person that the maintenance has been completed to the required standard

**Engineering Projects**:

- Work as a project team member

**Material Handling**:

- Sling loads
- Operating cranes/hoists
- Operating forklifts

**Continuous Improvement**:

- Participate in continuous improvement drives related to tooling

**Reporting**:

- Complete Maintenance Time Sheets (nature of work, time spent to repair and material/spares used